Q. Who
succeeded Tony LaRussa as manager of the St. Louis Cardinals?
Hint: He proceeded
to take them to postseason play for the next four seasons.
Hint: After 591
wins at a .555 winning rate, he went across the state looking to replicate his
success.
- LaRussa retired after
winning the World Series in 2011. Matheny
took the reins for the 2012 through 2018 seasons, but was fired 93 games into
his last year.
- Matheny became the
manager of the Kansas City Royal on 31-Oct-2019 replacing recent WS-winning KCR
mgr Ned Yost.
FCR - Tom Lee,
Nashville
Incorrect guesses: Dave
Duncan, Whitey Herzog, Pat Matheny, McSeeeney, Whitey Herzog
TUESDAY
Q. Who replaced
Joe Medwick in the 1941 All-Star Game?
Hint: Later in
that same game, Ted Williams hit a game-winning three-run home run off him.
Hint: He is fondly
remembered for his one-hit, complete-game shutout in the World Series.
- ASG = 08-Jul-1941. Technically, Passeau didn’t replace Ducky via a double switch.
Passeau was simply inserted into the lineup in the 9th spot after Medwick had
PH for P Bucky Walters. Although catcher Harry Danning did enter the game
at the same time as Passeau, Danning hit in the 8th spot vacated by fellow C Al
Lopez, so these substitutions were not made as part of a classic double switch.
In fact, Passeau actually batted (in the 9th spot) later that game.
- Pitching for CHC he shut out DET giving up only a single
to the Tigers’ Rudy York in G 3 of the 1945 WS.
FCR - Daniel Wilson, St. Paul
Incorrect guesses: Bill Bevans, Rip Sewell, Dizzy Dean, Mort
Cooper
WEDNESDAY
Q. After Mark Belanger in 1979, who was the
next Orioles’ shortstop to be placed on the Disabled List?
Hint: He is the only player to drive in a run
against that famous BLTR pitcher Wade Boggs.
Hint: He was an All-Star for one league, then
played for a team from the other league in that same season's World Series.
- Kiko Garcia, who supplanted Belanger as Earl
Weaver’s shortstop down the stretch in the pennant-winning 1979, shared the O’s
starting shortstop position almost equally with Belanger in 1980. Then Garcia went on the DL 23-May-1980. Hence our question would have been more
accurately written, “After
Kiko Garcia in 1980, who was the next Orioles’ shortstop to be placed on the
Disabled List?” Bordick went on the DL with a season-ending
separated shoulder injury 15-June-2001.
- RBI vs. Boggs = 10-Aug-1999. In the top of the 9th, with the
score 16-1 in favor of BAL, Bordick singled to RF scoring Rich Amaral who had
doubled in the previous at-bat. Final
score = 17-1.
- AS for BAL in 2000 on 11-Jul; Then on
28-Jul, traded by the BAL to NYM for Pat Gorman (minors), Leslie Brea, Mike
Kinkade and Melvin Mora. NYM played AL’s NYY in the WS on Oct-2000.
FCR - Mark DeLodovico, Rockville, Maryland
Incorrect
guesses: Miguel Tejada
THURSDAY
Q. Who is still the only native of Mexico
to hit more than thirty home runs in a season in the majors?
Hint: He did it six times.
Hint: He has twice served as manager of the
Mexican national team.
Hint: He was a double-unique for a decade and a half.
- He manager of the Team Mexico for the 2007 Pan
American Games
and the 2009 World Baseball Classic.
- When he debuted 01-Sep-1991, there had never been
another player among the 13,500+ previous major leaguers who went by “Vinny”. Nor had there ever been another Castilla. He maintained this lofty status until the debut of journeyman
utility player Vinny Rottino exactly 15 years later
on 01-Sep-2006.
FCR - Jim Casey, Savannah
Incorrect
guesses: Adrian Gonzalez, Andres
Galarraga
FRIDAY
Q. For which former player is Dusty Baker's
son named?
Hint: He was the last American League player to
score five runs in a game in the 1990s.
Hint: Which player acted as Santa Claus for his
team’s charity appearances during a time when management and the players had
still not figured out how to get the game back onto the field.
- Namesake Darren Baker made headlines as a
batboy a bit too eager to perform his in-game tasks. On 24-Oct-2002, J.T. Snow gave him a quick lesson in bat-retrieval
timing. Darren now plays baseball for Cal.
- Santa Claus for SFG in December of 1994.
FCR - Paul Nielsen, Bowie, Maryland
Incorrect
guesses: J.T. Snow, Darren Erstad
SATURDAY
Q. Who was the only Cardinal to pinch hit
for Mark McGwire in 1998?
Hint: He was the first post-expansion Detroit
Tiger to have consecutive four-hit games.
Hint: Normally an infielder, the first time he
was called on to play the outfield, he borrowed a glove from a teammate whose
nickname was ironically “The Bat”.
- 4 H X 2 = 10-Sep- & 11-Sep-2005. His back-to-back
4-hit games raised his BA a nifty 11 points (.325 to .336), which is difficult for
a full-time player to do that late in the season.
FCR - Mike Sparks, Sarasota
Incorrect
guesses:
SUNDAY
Q. What former Seminole alum replaced Manny
Ramirez on the Rays’ roster when Manny retired early in the season one year?
Hint: While batting, he was hit in the head by a
pickoff throw from an All-Star catcher, leaving him bleeding, with a concussion
and needing three stitches.
Hint: His father has managed nearly 2,000 minor
league baseball teams over forty seasons including winning ten league championships.
- Graduated from Seminole High School in
Seminole, Florida. Journeyman catcher Bobby Wilson also went there and
wad teammate of Kotchman’s. Ramirez retired from the majors for good after
the G on 06-Apr-2011, the 5th G
of the season. Kotchman was called on to
step in and played 1B for 146 of the remaining 157 G
for TBR that year, helping
push Joe Maddon’s team to a 91-71 record for a 2nd place finish behind
NYY, capturing an 2012 LDS berth.
- Head bonk courtesy of catcher Russell Martin’s pickoff throw as
Kotchman slid back into 2B after hitting a 7th-inning double on 16-Jun-2007. Kotchman was replaced in the G by Robb Quinlan.
- After two seasons as a player, Tom Kotchman has managed in the
minors since 1979, piloting 11 teams in 8 leagues over 3,547 games.
FCR - John Wills, San Francisco
Incorrect
guesses: Sean Rodriguez, Mallex Smith, J.D.
Drew
WEEKLY THEME Most consecutive fielding chances without
an error by position
continued
13-Jul-1991
through 29-Jun-1994
*Does not include
passed balls
Source: The Elias Book
of Baseball Records, 2008. Updates
welcome.
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme - Dan Massey, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
(after Passeau)
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Monday - Managers
who succeeded Hall of Fame managers.
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